Earlier this month, US tech giants Google made a splash in the media, announcing plans to develop new ‘disease-detecting magnetic nanoparticles’. This was almost universally welcomed – after all, trying to detect diseases earlier is something that’s a focus of many research organisations, including ours. But when we tried to dig deeper into the detail behind the story, things remained pretty light on actual context and detail. So we spoke to Professor Duncan Graham – a UK-based nanoscientist from University of Strathclyde and expert advisor to Cancer Research UK – to get his take on the announcement.
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